Exploring Searchsploit

Searchsploit is a command-line tool that allows us to search and browse all the exploits that are available at the exploit database.

How to do it...

Let's perform the following steps:

1. To view help, type the following command:

searchsploit -h

The following screenshot shows the output of the preceding command:

2. We can perform a search by entering any keyword:

3. If you want to copy the exploit into your working directory, use the following command:

searchsploit -m exploitdb-id 

In the next recipe, we will look at routersploit.